HIV Community Based Research

Bringing Community & Academia together through research

Community Based Research – what is it?

Anyone can participate in community-based research!

The Community-Based Research (CBR) Capacity-Building Program presented by Positive Living BC is a provincial program bringing together BC AIDS Service Organizations and academic researchers.

The Community-Based Research Facilitator brokers the relationship to ensure community interests are included and protected in projects while ensuring scientific rigour is observed during the research process.

The program is designed to improve the skills of AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) in developing, implementing, and disseminating findings from their own community based research project with the assistance of a “CBR Facilitator”.

Terry Howard, the Director of HIV Community Based Research for British Columbia, works collaboratively with ASOs and academic institutions to identify and coordinate a wide-range of initiatives that incorporate community-based research principles and provide much needed “knowledge to action” that benefits the HIV community.

Community-situated CBR projects offer a great opportunity to provide evidence-based research findings to support your next funding application!

↓Please check out the NEW POSTS BELOW for current information!↓

CIHR III Spring Funding Opportunities

CIHR-III (Infection and Immunity Institute) would like to inform/remind its research community of the following CIHR funding opportunities as well as events of interest.

Funding Opportunities

Team Grant : Health Challenges in Chronic Inflammation Initiative (Phase 2: Full Application)
Application: 2013-10-15
Application Notice of Decision: 2014-03-31
Funding begins: 2014-04-01

Planning Grants : Spring 2013 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas)
Application: 2013-06-17
Application Notice of Decision: 2013-11-01
Funding begins: 2013-11-01

Dissemination Events : Spring 2013 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas)
Application: 2013-06-17
Application Notice of Decision: 2013-11-01
Funding begins: 2013-11-01

CIHR Café Scientifique Program (2013)
Application: 2013-05-24
Anticipated Notice of Decision: 2013-08-30
Funding Start Date: 2013-09-01

Team Grant: HIV Cure Research
Registration Deadline: 2013-05-24
Application Deadline: 2013-06-26
Anticipated Notice of Decision: 2013-12-04
Funding Start Date: 2014-01-01

See the CIHR Website for details on these opportunities

CAHR 2013 Conference, CTAC event

CTAC would like to invite you to attend the following event:

 

Drafting a Treatment Access Bill of Rights for People Living with HIV in Canada

Thursday, April 11, 13:00 – 16:30 PST

The Westin Bayshore

1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver

Room: Cypress 2, Level 2

 

I would like to personally invite you our ancillary event. The event is open and no fee is needed to attend. We invite you to also circulate this to other HIV leaders, service providers, community members, networks and other colleagues who you think have not received this invitation.

 

The purpose of the proposed event is to provide an opportunity for community members, policymakers, researchers and service providers to meet and contribute to the development of CTAC’s forthcoming Treatment Access Bill of Rights for People Living with HIV in Canada.  Led by CTAC, participants will have the opportunity to explore rights and responsibilities related to fair and equitable access to a range of treatments, care and support for people living with HIV in Canada.

 

This forum will include presentations from several keynote speakers followed by break-out sessions as we collaborate toward a Bill of Rights. Participants of this event will be encouraged to provide their input on a number of key thematic areas contributing to aTreatment Access Bill of Rights, including universal access to healthcare, human rights and dignity, treatment decision-making, patient-centric care and compassionate access.

 

Registration is free but required:                       Please register online at http://ctac.ca/pages/cahr-2013

 

*This event will be conducted in English

CHIWOS Study Hiring Peer Research Associates!

The Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS) is a 5-year, women-centred, community-based research project. It brings together researchers, clinicians, community partners, and women living with HIV from across Canada with the goal of improving the care available to women living with HIV in Canada. CHIWOS study objectives are to investigate whether women are using women-centred care, and to learn about whether women-centred care improves sexual, reproductive, emotional, and women’s health outcomes.

Our BC CHIWOS Team has enjoyed a busy start to 2013! I’m happy to share that we are officially transitioning to the second phase of CHIWOS, the national survey phase, where we plan to enroll 350 women living with HIV from across British Columbia into our study beginning in May 2013.
In anticipation of roll-out in May, we are now initiating a hiring process to bring an additional 4-6 Peer Research Associates (PRAs) onto our existing PRA team. In our study, PRAs are women living with HIV who are hired and trained as researchers on our core study team, and who have experiences and identities in common with the study participants that they will recruit and interview.

PRAs will receive training in research methods, privacy and confidentiality, administering interviews, the CHIWOS survey, computer literacy, participant support, and self care. After training, PRAs will interview study participants over an 18-month period across BC’s five regional health authorities and the Oak Tree Clinic in Vancouver, and will be based in or around Vancouver, Surrey, Victoria, Kelowna, or Prince George.  

Please see attached for the job description and accompanying application form. All candidates are asked to complete and submit the attached application form via email, mail or fax to myself (contact details are below and attached). Applicants may also attach and submit a resume, although this is optional. The deadline for applications is February 15th, 2013. 
To download the application form, click here PRA Job Description_Feb 1 2013 (final)

New Web Pages Coming!

Public Health and HIV CBR

A brand new section is being developed for this website. Several new pages that will focus on promoting greater engagement between Public Health and HIV Community Based Research.

  • We will feature plain language tools on how to engage in successful research partnerships.
  • What kind of ethical challenges are involved and how do I deal with them?
  • An exciting new discussion board for CBR issues.
  • Helpful, recent CBR projects featured to describe our successes!

Look for the new pages at the end of February 2013!

Body Mapping Event in Vancouver – December 15th,2012 from 6-8 PM

“Take a Breath. Have a laugh. Sing a Song. Dream a Dream.” Elina, 2012

 

Please join us for an evening of art and story-telling in celebration of the “Body Mapping: Telling Our Stories Through Art” research project. In May 2012 six brave Vancouver women living with HIV came together to create their own Body Maps.


When: December 15, 2012

Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Where: Potluck Café, 30 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC (*Across from Army and Navy)

Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Please feel free to bring a friend.

CHIWOS is hiring a PRA Trainer!

The Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS) is a women-centred, community-based research project. It brings together researchers, clinical staff, community partners, and women living with HIV from across Canada with the aim of improving the standard of care offered to HIV-positive women in Canada. The study is looking for a Peer Research Assistant Trainer.

Please see the full description of the job description and details here!

CAHR 2013 Call for Abstracts

Welcome to the first E-News for the 22nd Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (CAHR 2013), which will be held April 11-14, 2013 at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver. The conference is presented by the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR), representing Canadian HIV researchers in the disciplines of basic science, clinical science, epidemiology/public health and social science.

See the full details by clicking on this link

CAHR Website Launch

The Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) is excited to announce the launch of their newly designed Web site, which went live on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012.

The site’s homepage welcomes visitors with a bold new look, a clean design, and features content focused on our mission, activities and funded researchers.  The website will highlight new types of content, including training tools for young researchers, a redesigned conference website, and more user-friendly architecture.

The website will be updated on a regular basis, with ground-breaking news, events, funding opportunities, researcher profiles and new content. We will be encouraging our community to contact us through the website and sign up for our newsletter mailing list which is a great way to stay informed.

view the website here

Momentum Health Study – recruiting participants!

The Momentum Health Study is a new sexual health study for gay, bi and other men who have sex with men in the Greater Vancouver area coordinated by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, in clinical partnership with the Vancouver Coastal Health STOP HIV/AIDS Team and supported by the Health Initiative for Men, YouthCO and Positive Living BC. We are a peer-recruited study and are looking for new participants to start the peer-recruitment chain process.
If you or anyone you know is interested in participating in our safe and confidential study, please answer a few questions on our online form here http://momentumstudy.ca/participate and our study staff may contact you to schedule you a visit at your convenience. You will be compensated $50 for your study visit and may be eligible for an additional $10 for each friend you help us recruit. We also have opportunities to win great prizes such as a monthly draw for $250 to the Apple Store and a 6-month draw for a $2000 gift certificate to the Flight Centre.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please email us at momentum@cfenet.ubc.ca, feel free to circulate this widely through your networks and apologies for cross-posting.
All the best,
The Momentum Health Study Team

 

Jamie Forrest, MPH
Project Coordinator, Momentum Health Study
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
505-1200 Burrard St.
Vancouver, BC.
V6Z 2C7
Office: 604-558-2018

TWO New HIV CBR Projects!

Two new CBR projects submitted for funding on June 15, 2012.

Both projects are collaborations between Positive Living BC, the Pacific AIDS Network and the Dr. Peter Centre with academic assistance from Dr. Cindy Patton and her crew at the Health Research Methods Training (HeRMeT) Lab at Simon Fraser University.

The Executive Summaries are below, please contact me for further information about either project….and wish us luck!!

Results will be published in October 2012.

The HIV CBR Manual:

The HIV CBR Manual application proposes to create a reference manual written in plain language designed to build the capacity of Community Based Organizations (CBO) to initiate competitive CBR grants and research projects. Written from an HIV community perspective, this manual will outline stages of the CBR project development process – beginning with the equitable engagement of academic researchers and culminating in the successful application of CBR findings to fund evidence-based HIV programming and to facilitate policy uptake. The manual, accessible in printed format and companion online reference tools, will effectively disseminate the cumulative work of the nine year history of the CBR Facilitator program at the Positive Living Society of BC, while continuing to build the capacity of community for competitive grant applications and community-situated rigorous HIV CBR in BC. Building the capacity of CBOs to initiate CBR is an approach whose time has come.

The Partner Building Sessions:

This grant will provide a series of five facilitated partner building sessions bringing together academic researchers and community based organizations to develop successful, equitable HIV CBR projects. By convening guided discussion sessions of community partners, health researchers, and/or knowledge users, we will develop equitable CBR partnerships resulting in more successful grant applications.  The partner building sessions will facilitate regional collaboration among individuals or groups from a variety of backgrounds, building new and existing multi-sectored partnerships that include a significant number of participants from outside the conventional HIV CBR community. The sessions will match community and academic partners; establish a relationship communication channel to understand capacity, explore common ground, research topic compatibility; and ultimately develop CBR project proposals for funding submission.

Here to help, let’s talk!

dialogue

I’m here to help any AIDS Service Organization, or person living with HIV, develop ideas for HIV Community Based Research projects in BC.

Effective April 1, 2012, Positive Living BC will continue to offer CBR Facilitation as one of the many support services provided for people living with HIV in BC. I am pleased to brainstorm ideas, assist with funding applications, help plan a Community Forum to discuss research findings, and provide technical advice for CBR projects when warranted. I will also broker a relationship with an academic partner appropriate to your project idea.

Contact me anytime to talk about YOUR idea!


Terry Howard, Director of HIV Community Based Research at Positive Living BC


Helping to build CBR around the world!!

I’ve always wondered who views this website and if it is helpful for Community Organizations interested in community based research in HIV/AIDS.

A very nice comment from an appreciative viewer

Message:

Dear Sir/Madam,
Hello! Its my pleasure to contact you to offer the debt of my thanks and gratifications for offering the details of how to coduct a CBR. Im from pakistan and a HIV+ and have just joined as country project coordinator for GFATM Round-10 which is a community based project. I had no idea about how to debut the project but after going through your site Im cofident and have a fair idea about things. With this opening I thought to thank you for such a comprehensive guide. I would alwas appriciate your guidence to put in my best for the cause of PLHIVs.
Thanks and Regards
Asghar Sattu

Canadian Working Group on HIV/AIDS Rehabilitation Study

Living with HIV and Other Health Conditions: The HIV Health and Rehabilitation Survey (The Pre-Test)

The goal of this survey is to describe the health-related challenges experienced by adults living with HIV, identify other health conditions they may be living with, and the variety of diverse rehabilitation services and living strategies that they use to manage the challenges of living with HIV.

To take the survey click on the link below:

CWGHR Study on Rehab

CIHR Winter 2012 HIV Research Funding Opportunities

1. Current Funding Opportunities

The CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative is pleased to announce the following funding opportunities.

Priority Announcements

Priority Announcements on CIHR Open competitions offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. The following Priority Announcements are now available in the area of HIV/AIDS Research:

a. Fellowship: Winter 2012 Priority Announcement (HIV/AIDS)

Through this Priority Announcement, the CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative will provide funding for Fellowship Award applications that have a primary research focus on HIV/AIDS and are determined to be relevant to one of the research priority areas.

The maximum amount per award is $60,000 for up to five years.

Application Deadline: 2012-02-01

For more information please click here.

b. Operating Grant: Winter 2012 Priority Announcement (HIV/AIDS)

Through this Priority Announcement, the CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative will provide funding for Operating Grant applications that have a primary research focus on HIV/AIDS and are determined to be relevant to one of the research priority areas.

The maximum amount per operating grant is $150,000 for up to three years.

The maximum amount awarded for a single bridge grant is $100,000 per annum for up to one year.

Registration Deadline: 2012-02-01

Application Deadline: 2012-03-01

For more information please click here.

c. Dissemination Events: Winter 2012 Priority Announcement (HIV/AIDS)

Through this funding opportunity, the CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative will support applications that are relevant to the priorities of the CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative and also the CIHR HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research Program.

The maximum amount per grant is $25,000 per annum for up to one year.

Application Deadline: 2012-02-15

For more information please click here CIHR HIV Funding

Rural Research Travel Bursary

Sharing rural research, connecting rural research stakeholders

Travel bursaries will be awarded to Rural Health Services Research Network (RHSRNbc) members who have been invited to present their rural health services research orally or, in poster format at either a national or international conference.

There are four bursaries to be won—three national bursaries of up to $450 and one international bursary of $750. These bursaries are intended to subsidize the costs of travel and accommodation and other expenses related to conference participation.

Application

This competition has a rolling deadline and bursaries will be awarded on a first come first serve basis to deserving applications given they meet appropriate standards of quality. Application forms are available online at TravelBursaryCompetitionApplicationSG

View the website for more details on membership and other offerings http://rhsrnbc.ca